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How can we stop fat cells from fueling cancer?
Understanding just how cancer uses our body's metabolism against us is challenging. A new study describes how tumors use fat cells to power their growth.
9 days ago - Medical News Today
How fat tissue shunts energy to tumors
Researchers recently discovered that that inactivation of a protein called p62 in fat cells fuels aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer in mice. The findings suggest that mTOR...
10 days ago - ScienceDaily
'Natural insecticide' kills advanced prostate cancer cells
Scientists identify a class of drugs that selectively targets and kills advanced prostate cancer cells that lack the tumor-suppressor protein PTEN.
15 days ago - Medical News Today
Measurement of tumor's metabolic activity could help determine prostate cancer prognosis
A new approach to analyzing prostate gland tissue may help address a major challenge in treating prostate cancer - determining which tumors are unlikely to progress and which...
23 days ago - News Medical
Metabolic profiling may determine aggressiveness, prognosis of prostate cancer
A new approach to analyzing prostate gland tissue may help address a major challenge in treating prostate cancer - determining which tumors are unlikely to progress and which...
24 days ago - ScienceDaily
Prostate cancer expert named co-chair of NCI committee
Wm. Kevin Kelly Wm. Kevin Kelly, DO, has been elected to serve as the medical oncology co-chair on the NCI Genitourinary Cancers Steering Committee. This committee promotes and...
24 days ago - Healio
MicroRNAs Promote Tumor Growth in Metastatic Prostate Cancers
Study finds a secreted microRNA molecule that alters bone structure in late-stage prostate cancer.
25 days ago - Medindia Health
Higher-dose RT lowers risk of recurrence but does not improve survival for men with prostate cancer
High-dose radiotherapy did not improve survival for men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer but did improve biochemical control and rates of distant metastases, when...
27 days ago - ScienceDaily - 2 articles
Dietary Supplement for Joints may Promote Tumor Growth in Skin Cancer
Natural glycosaminoglycan, approved as a dietary supplement used for osteoarthritis, promotes the tumor growth potential of BRAF V600E-expressing human melanoma cells and...
1 month ago - Medindia Health
Brachytherapy Boost Tops Surgery for Prostate Ca
Lower disease-specific mortality in those with Gleason 9-10 tumors
1 month ago - MedPageToday
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Concussions from Football and accidental injury can increase the risk of Parkinson's disease, finds a new study. These injuries from the concussion have been linked to 56...
Can One Single Blow on the Head Increase Risk of Parkinson's Disease?
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A single concussion increases Parkinson's risk by more than 50%, study warns
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'Healthy' toddler, 3, is battling a devastating condition similar to ALZHEIMER'S
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You can now add one more benefit to eating beets - that is, slowing down the progress of Alzheimer's disease. According to a study, the extracts of beets contain a compound...
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The father battling Alzheimer's at 45
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